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Why CSE Cares
There are twin crises facing the Social Security system, and our national political leaders cannot hide from this reality:
The first crisis is financial. If nothing is done, the system will begin running cash deficits in just 15 years and will need to be bailed out with $11.3 trillion worth of new income taxes or government borrowing to pay its bills. The program’s long-term liabilities are a whopping $22 trillion - six times today’s national debt.

Florida CSE's Issues 2000 creates momentum for tort reform
CSE brought more than 400 stade-wide CSE activists to Orlando, Florida this weekend (July 15 & July 16) to learn more about ending lawsuit abuse and what’s at stake in the upcoming elections when they took part in Florida CSE’s Issues Forum 2000 & Campaign Issue Intervention.

Cairns says, "It’s inevitable"
ROANOKE RAPIDS – "Merchants are mad as hell," said one car dealer describing the feelings by him and other businessmen toward Halifax County Commissioners having raised property taxes once again.
Whereas the word out of County Manager Charles Archer’s office is that taxes under his regime have been raised but once, many are telling the newspaper that raising the property tax rate per $100 valuation by $.085, coupled with not lowering the rate last year after a revaluation, is the same as raising taxes twice.

After less than five hours of deliberations, a Florida jury has shattered all records for punitive damages awards.
"This jury’s $145 billion award, nearly 30 times the previous record, even outdistanced a fictional award in John Grisham’s novel ‘The Runaway Jury,’" said Paul Beckner, President of Citizens for a Sound Economy.
In the Grisham novel about smokers suing tobacco companies, punitive damages were awarded in the amount of $400 million on top of compensatory damages of $2 million.

CSE today praised the Senate for passing H.R. 8, "The Death Tax Elimination Act."
"Repealing the Death Tax is the right thing to do for American family farms, businesses and the New Economy," said Citizens for a Sound Economy President Paul Beckner. "It is also the right thing to do to protect American values."
Earlier this month, Mr. Beckner sent a letter to House members urging support of this important legislation. Today, nine Senate Democrats signed on with Republicans to pass the bill 59-39.

A internal memo from the Department of Energy proves that the Clinton-Gore administration knew why gas prices rose so dramatically this summer, and that its own regulations were partly to blame. This directly contradicts claims by the administration that “there is no economic reason for the run-up in prices,” and that “big oil is gouging American consumers.”

MINNEAPOLIS—On July 6, 2000, more than 100 CSE activists attended the Social Security Reform Town Hall Meeting hosted by Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation and featuring Sen. Rod Grams (R-MN), retirement security expert Jose PiÃ±era, and CSE Director of Tax and Budget Policy Scott Hodge. The event was also broadcast live on the KSTP Radio’s Jason Lewis Show, which reaches hundreds of thousands of people across the state of Minnesota.

In 1829, New York Governor Martin Van Buren wrote to President Andrew Jackson about the threat posed by a new technology. When we read the correspondence today, Van Buren's plea for regulatory barriers to protect the status quo provides a striking example of how industries turn to the government when threatened by superior technologies. The letter gives little forethought to the effect this policy would have on consumers.